Knockdown nesting chair



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United States Patent cc KNOCKDOWN NESTING CHAIR Earl W. Leatherman,Akron, Ohio Application June 5, 1952, Serial No. 291,905

4 Claims. (Cl. 155-2) This invention relates to a chair or other seatdesigned primarily for use in an auditorium or other place in whichchairs or the like are desired only part of the time. The chair isdesigned to be readily taken apart, and the parts are fabricated so thatthey are readily nested with like parts of other chairs. When nested,the parts can be stored in a small space.

The feet and seat are advantageously made as one unit and the back as aseparate unit, and the backs are de signed to telescope on to the unitwhich includes the feet. The seat may be provided with a cushion that isfastened thereto, or a cushion that is removable and stacked separatelywith other cushions when the chairs are stored.

The feet-and-seat unit is preferably stamped as a stool from a singlesheet of metal, and the back likewise is preferably stamped from asingle sheet of metal. The top of the stool and base of the back areboth preferably formed with a taper so that the back will slip over thestool. The form of the tapered portions may be or approach that of atruncated cone, or it may be a rectilinear structure with sides of thesame or a difierent length, the base of the back being complementary tothe top of the seat and slidable thereof. Although ordinarily the backwill be telescoped over the top of the stool, it is conceivable that itsbase might fit into the top of the stool. The stool and back arepreferably stamped from a single sheet of metal, which ordinarily willbe aluminum or magnesium or other lightweight metal or allo Theinvention will be further described in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of a preferreddesign of chair;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view looking down on the stool part of the chair, on theline 33 of Fig. 2, a part of the seat being broken away;

Fig. 4 shows a nesting of the chair backs;

Fig. 5 shows a nesting of the stools; and

Fig. 6 is a section through a chair having a modified seat design.

The chair of Figure l is made from a stool 1 and back 2, each of whichare stamped from a single piece of aluminum or other suitable material.The seat of the stool has been cut away in order to reduce its weight,and the hole 3 thus formed has been covered with a sheet of fabric 4 towhich a cushion 5 is attached. The fabric is cemented or otherwisefastened to the stool.

2,703,135 Patented Mar. 1, 1955 The top 6 of the stool tapers inwardlyupwardly and the base 7 of the back is formed with a complementary taperand slides over the top of the stool. The taper is suflicient to permitthe back to be easily separated from the stool when backs and stools areto be nested as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

By bending a rim 8 up around the front of the base of the back, the backis made more rigid and durable. The feet of the stool are turned up at 9to prevent them from damaging the floor on which the chair stands.

Figure 6 shows an alternative design in which the cushion 10 is madeseparate from the stool and may be separately stacked when the chairparts are nested. It may be composed of sponge rubber or the like. Theseat is not cut away as in the preferred design, but is left intact sothat the portion 11 supports the cushion.

Modifications in the design may be made. For instance, a seat whichholds several persons may be similarly formed with a back separable fromthe feet unit, both being nestable with other identical members.

The invention is defined in the claims which follow.

What I claim is:

1. A seat with a back, the feet of the seat being formed as a unit, thetop of the feet unit and the bottom of the back being complementarilytapered whereby the one slips over the other and each is separable fromthe other, both the inside and the outside of each feet unit beingtapered at substantially the same angle whereby each feet unit isnestable between two identical feet units, and both the inside and theoutside of each back being tapered at substantially the same anglewhereby each back is nestable between two identical backs.

2. A chair formed of a stool and a back which is separable from thestool, the stool having a tapering top, the back of the chair beingformed with a base which is complementary to the top of the stool and is.telescopcd over the stool, the inside and outside of the top of thestool tapering at substantially the same angle whereby each stool isnestable between identical stools, and the inside and outside of thebottom of the back tapering at substantially the same angle whereby eachback is nestable between identical backs.

3. In combination with the chair of claim 2 a cushion for the seatthereof which rests on the stool and is separable therefrom.

The chair of claim 2 in which the stool and the top are each stampedfrom a single sheet of metal.

References Cited in the file of this patent Norway Jan. 16, 1950

